Re:The death of web development education
by marcus_holmes on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:54PM
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I used to be a freelancer working in startups. I've seen nightmare stuff cobbled together by student devs working on their mates' first startup that were completely unfit for purpose. Literally the entire thing needed to be rewritten from scratch in order for it to have more than two users. Still got funding.
But, investors do care about the stability of the system they invested in. And how quickly it can be extended and expanded upon while still maintaining functionality. And they deeply care about scalability. I don’t believe this is a question about whether code is LLM generated. I think this is a question of having the ability to build a system that can be up and provide the value that investors expect. And the way you use AI and your knowledge of systems does play a role in that, especially over time.
And another point: it doesn’t have to be either or. Sometimes the prudent thing is to hand code a specific highly sensitive part of the system while your agents are building other things. The fact that these agents can do things in the background frees us with different possibilities. And also, sometimes hand coding some areas in the code that you are not familiar with builds your knowledge which the ln enables you to guide the agents more effectively later on. There’s benefits of both approaches and both approaches can be done simultaneously.